Teachings on the family

• Christians believe that the family is the basis for a

stable society
3.6 Christian teachings on family life
• Christians believe that the family can help children
learn about God and the Christian faith
Key Words:
• In the UK, view of marriage has changed over the
Nuclear family- Mother, father and children living as a past 50 years ex: from being mostly a nuclear family
unit to other variations like re-constituted family…etc

Re-constituted family- Where two sets of children • Christians believe that having children is one of the
(step brothers and step sisters) become one family purposes of marriage
when their divorced parents marry each other
• Christians believe that children are a gift from God

• Christians also believe that both parents and

Parents
Parents
-care for them properly
-care for them properly
-teach them about God and how to live
-teach them about God and how to live
-take their child to be baptized Glossary:
-take their child to be baptized
-bring them up in a loving, godly home
-bring them up in a loving, godly home
Extended family- Children, parents and
grandparents/aunts/uncles living as a unit
or in close proximity
Children

-respect their parents

Single-parent family- One parent living
-to obey them alone with their children as a result of
divorce, separation or death, or because
the parent is unmarried

Quotes Same- sex family- Two same- sex

parents and their children
-“Honour your father and your
mother” (ten commandments-
Exodus 20:12)

- Encourage creation of families

-“Children, obey your parents…”
- In the family, keep them safe and help them learn from their mistakes

- Baptism – Dedicated to faith

How do Christian churches
-“Parents, do not exasperate your
- children;
Studying instead,
Sunday bring and
schools themyouth
up ingroups help families?
the instruction of the Lord”
- Children go to church schools to support faith

- Extended church families support for kids and single parents

- Family service such as brownies and scouts